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Minnesota Session Laws - 2020, Regular Session
Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
CHAPTER 81--H.F.No. 1883
An act
relating to state government; extending the COVID-19 Minnesota fund;
amending Laws 2020, chapter 71, article 1, section 7, subdivision 1.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Laws 2020, chapter 71, article 1, section 7, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1.
Fund created.
The COVID-19 Minnesota fund is created in the state treasury to pay expenditures related to a peacetime emergency declared by the governor in an executive order that relates to the infectious disease known as COVID-19. Money in the fund is appropriated to the commissioner of management and budget and may be disbursed or transferred to state agencies as necessary to (1) protect Minnesota citizens from the COVID-19 outbreak, and (2) maintain state government operations throughout the duration of the peacetime emergency. Any money in the fund that remains unobligated on deleted text begin May 11, 2020deleted text end new text begin December 31, 2020new text end , cancels to the general fund.
new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end
new text begin This section is effective retroactively from May 8, 2020. new text end
Sec. 2.
Laws 2020, chapter 71, article 1, section 7, the effective date, is amended to read:
EFFECTIVE DATE.
This section is effective the day following final enactment and expires deleted text begin May 11, 2020deleted text end new text begin December 31, 2020new text end .
new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end
new text begin This section is effective retroactively from May 8, 2020. new text end
Sec. 3.
new text begin CONTINGENT TRANSFER. new text end
new text begin Any money canceled from the COVID-19 Minnesota fund to the general fund in fiscal year 2020 under Laws 2020, chapter 71, article 1, section 7, subdivision 1, is transferred back to the COVID-19 Minnesota fund. new text end
new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end
new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment. new text end
Presented to the governor May 12, 2020
Signed by the governor May 12, 2020, 7:18 p.m.
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